The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals. The government’s procurement arm is overseeing the migration of workloads from the Government Digital Service’s now defunct Gov.uk platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to the AWS cloud. This piece of work…
Hackney Council has committed to growing its annual usage of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud platform by 8% a year over the next three years to secure a “minimum 22%” discount on the public cloud giant’s services, Computer Weekly understands. The local authority’s latest cloud hosting deal with AWS went live on 1 November 2024,…
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In 2024, Computer Weekly’s data and ethics coverage continued to focus on the various ethical issues associated with the development and deployment of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included reports on the copyright issues associated with generative AI (GenAI) tools, the environmental impacts of AI, the invasive tracking tools in place across the…
Google’s first step into the cloud was App Engine, launched in 2008. Google Cloud Storage followed later in 2010. Since then, the company has steadily expanded to what is now known as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and consolidated its position as one of the three, global “hyperscale” cloud storage providers. Google Cloud is seen…
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Tech workers claim that where organisations are working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) those efforts are making a difference, according to a survey. As part of its Careers and Hiring Guide 23/24, tech talent firm Tenth Revolution Group gathered data from global employees at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 365, Azure and Business Applications,…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set out how its investments in artificial intelligence (AI) chips and software are saving customers money and helping them migrate their legacy Windows and VMware workloads off-premise much quicker. AWS CEO Matt Garman used the opening keynote at the public cloud giant’s Re:Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas,…
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Almost seven years after the first HomePod was introduced, Apple’s smart speaker strategy never really took off. The price was too high, and the HomePod mini could not compete against more affordable speakers from Google and Amazon.Still, Apple continues to offer smart speakers with the 2022 HomePod 2 and the 2020 HomePod mini. Hard-core Apple…
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A Manchester law firm has started on-boarding clients for a probable class action against Microsoft and Google, which it believes to be unlawfully collecting and using peoples’ personal data to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models. Following a two-year-long investigation into the data practices of the tech giants, Barings Law believes the extensive information being…
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More than 50 million people passed through one of Manchester Airports Group’s (MAG) three sites in 2023, travelling to one of 250-plus destinations around the globe. As well as the millions of passengers flying in and out of Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, MAG handled 395,000 tonnes of cargo out of the latter,…
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Many enterprises are moving towards use of data lakes to help in managing increasing amounts of information. Such large repositories allow organisations to gather and store structured and unstructured data before handing it off for further data management and processing in a data warehouse, database, enterprise application, or to data scientists and analytics and artificial intelligence…
Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits? Read More »
